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Just For One Day Live Aid Musical Poster

Live Aid musical coming to Milton Keynes

Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical will be arriving at Milton Keynes Theatre from Tuesday 21-Saturday 25 September 2027. 41 years ago on 13 July 1985, music united the world. Now, audiences can discover the behind-the-scenes story of Live Aid in a whole new way. Just For One Day – The Live […]

Stocks Golf Club

Tee up and drive change for local people facing crisis

Local homelessness charity, DENS, has announced its upcoming Golf Day at the exclusive Stocks Golf Club in Aldbury, Hertfordshire. Taking place on Friday 9 October, the fundraising event welcomes players of all abilities for a fantastic day of golf and hospitality at one of the area’s most prestigious clubs – usually reserved for members only. […]

Elite and the BFA at Ideas Fest 2025

British Franchise Association returns to Tring this September

The BFA (British Franchise Association) is coming to Tring in September, to talk to younger people about the benefits of business format franchising. The association, which has been the self-regulatory body for franchising since 1977, will be attending Ideas Fest, described as ‘the Glastonbury of business conferences’, which will be held at Champneys from 9-10 […]

Hospice Care Week

What’s on at Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care is bringing back Sustainable September and encouraging local people to shop, donate and dress more sustainably throughout the month. The charity is calling on supporters to clear out their wardrobes and donate quality pre-loved items to their local Rennie Grove Peace shop, while also embracing second-hand fashion by purchasing clothes […]

Self-service dog wash at Gadebridge Park Hemel Hempstead

New self-service dog wash gets tails wagging at Gadebridge Park

Dog owners visiting Gadebridge Park in Hemel Hempstead can now head home with a happy dog and mud-free car thanks to a brand-new Self-Service Dog Wash, installed by Polygon Pets Ltd. Located in the Queensway Car Park, the facility provides everything needed to get four-legged friends looking and smelling their best after a day of […]

Tring Park School A Level TPS 2026

Tring Park School celebrates A Level success

Tring Park School for the Performing Arts is celebrating another year of outstanding A Level achievements for its talented students. The students have once again surpassed national benchmarks, with over 62.8% securing A*-B grades, compared with the UK national average of 55.8%, and 84.4% securing A*-C grades, compared with the UK national average of 78.4%. […]

COAM Tudor Merriment 2025

Step Back in Time for Tudor Merriment at Chiltern Open Air Museum

On 15 and 16 August (10am-5pm) experience the sights, sounds, and celebrations of Tudor England as Chiltern Open Air Museum welcomes visitors to a weekend of historic music, dancing, traditional skills, and living history. The Suffolk Free Company and Myal Pyper will bring the Tudor era to life, transporting visitors back to a time of […]

Flagmen on Leighton Buzzrd Railway

End of an era at Leighton Buzzard Railway

For over 105 years, from when the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway opened in 1919, carrying on into preservation time, getting the trains safely across the main roads has been controlled by flagmen stopping traffic with red flags, a safety routine still in use today. In fact, the use of flagmen (and ladies) has always been […]

Justice & Peace Members - plant sale

Bees, butterflies and bananas with The Justice and Peace Group

The Justice and Peace Group, Tring will be at the Apple Day in Jeacock’s Orchard, Cow Lane, on Sunday 4 October. Members are all volunteers, living in Tring and the villages, who unite as a campaigning and fundraising group with the environment, human rights, social wellbeing and Fairtrade at the heart of all they do. […]

Six the musical

Musical Six announces cast for 2026 tour

The multi award-winning musical Six, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, announces a new cast for 2026-2027 UK and international tour, coming to Milton Keynes Theatre from Tuesday 24-Saturday 28 Nov 2026. The new Queens are Sedona Sky (Catherine of Aragon), Eve Humphrey (Anne Bolyn), Billie Kerr (Jane Seymour), Tia Antoine-Charles (Anne of Cleves), […]

Nathan Christy as Paul Simon and Samuel Joseph Howes as Art Garfunkel in the Simon and Garfunkel Story

Simon and Garfunkel Story performs soundtrack to people’s lives

Listening to The Simon & Garfunkel Story at Centenary Theatre, Berkhamsted on 7 August was like hearing a soundtrack of people’s lives rather than a collection of hit songs. It’s a description the show’s general manager and associate director, Cameron Potts used when explaining to Lyn Drummond about the enduring power of the legendary American […]

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GFRA asks residents to continue fight against Marshcroft

As the appeal by developers to build 1,400 houses on the so-called Marshcroft development approaches, Grove Fields Residents Association (GFRA) is calling for Tring residents to support its fight against overdevelopment. The group has two battles on its hands: Objecting to the proposal to redraw the Green Belt boundary in the draft local plan to […]